Human Textuality As an Interdisciplinary Problem: the Relationship of the Genome, Gunas of Nature and Biological Destiny of a Human Being
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Vol. 9 Núm. 25 / Enero 2020 49 Artículo de investigación Human textuality as an interdisciplinary problem: the relationship of the genome, gunas of nature and biological destiny of a human being Человеческая текстуальность как междисциплинарная проблема: взаимосвязь генома, гун природы и биологической судьбы человека Recibido: 5 de septiembre del 2019 Aceptado: 14 de octubre del 2019 Written by: Maya Vilyevna Rakhimova21 SPIN: 2516-9058 Abstract Аннотация The purpose of this work is by relying on the Цель данной работы: опираясь на interdisciplinary aspect to provide evidence in междисциплинарный аспект представить defense of the thesis about the textual nature of a доказательства в защиту тезиса о текстуальной human being. The author believes that a human природе человека. Автор считает, что человек- being is a text on the biological and metaphysical это текст на биологическом и метафизическом levels of matter, and an interdisciplinary уровнях материи, а междисциплинарный approach is able to discover the mutual подход способен раскрыть взаимосвязь между relationship between the gunas of nature, genes гунами природы, генами и биологической судьбой человека. В качестве ведущего and the biological destiny of a human being. An используется междисциплинарный подход. interdisciplinary approach is used as the lead. The Автор опирается на научные данные генетики, author relies on scientific data of genetics, эпигенетики, философии языка, лингвистики, epigenetics, philosophy of language, linguistics, философии и философии религии. В статье philosophy and philosophy of religion. The paper представлено сравнение, анализ научных presents a comparison, analysis of scientific data данных гуманитарных и естественных наук о of the Humanities and natural Sciences about a человеке. Новизна работы определяется human being. The novelty of the work is междисциплинарным подходом к проблеме determined by the interdisciplinary approach to текстуальности человека. Лингвистика the problem of human textuality. The linguistics помогает понять структуру ДНК как help to understand the structure of DNA as a лингвистическую структуру. Философия linguistic structure. The philosophies of religion религии помогает заметить сходство между help to notice the similarities between genetic генетическим полиморфизмом и кармой, polymorphism and karma, gunas and genes. The гунами и генами. Эпигенетика помогает epigenetics help to capture the special уловить особую связь между питанием, relationship between nutrition, stress and стрессом и эпигенетическим ландшафтом, epigenetic landscape, human mood and настроением человека и биологической biological destiny. Philosophy helps to notice the судьбой. Философия помогает заметить interdisciplinary connections between the междисциплинарные связи между Humanities and natural Sciences and to bring the гуманитарными и естественными науками и вывести изучение человека на новый уровень study of a human being to a new level of понимания. understanding. Ключевые слова: текстуальность, геном, Keywords: Textuality, genome, epigenome, эпигеном, слово, гун природы, биологическая word, gunas of nature, the biological destiny of a судьба человека human being. 21 PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Head of the department of Socio-Humanitarian and Psychological-Pedagogical Disciplines, South Ural State Institute of Art named after P. I. Tchaikovsky Encuentre este artículo en http:// www.amazoniainvestiga.info ISSN 2322- 6307 Rakhimova, M. /Vol. 9 Núm. 25: 49 - 58/ enero 2020 50 Introduction Human textuality is very complex to understand. A number of facts of genetics are taken from the The author is in the very beginning of the works of V.S. Baranov and A. S. Spirin. Data on research, and yet it’s already clear how exciting the linguistic nature of the text are taken from the journey to this “terra incognita” is going to be. works of I. R. Galperin. Data on the philosophy The basic idea behind this research is very of religion are derived from the works of simple: Human is a text. However, this very Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. simple idea is very hard to explain and prove, especially in the light of Bacon’s Idols of the At this piece of paper textuality is understood as Theater that are firmly entrenched both in ability of human nature to collect, preserve and scientific and common consciousness. communicate information (at genetic level of matter) and meanings (at metaphysical level of But let’s, however, assume that Human is textual matter). Those information and meanings are on biological, as well as social levels of matter sufficient by themselves, but they do not exist patterning, and ask ourselves a question: what if independently, they interact. our findings could help us better understand how to be human? From this perspective human looks like a text (Anshen, 2005) that is being simultaneously What if the linguistics could help us to written by Nature, biologically, and by Himself, understand the structure of DNA as a linguistic socio-culturally. So, Let us try to prove this structure? And the philosophies of religion help assumption. to notice the similarities between genetic polymorphism and karma, gunas and genes? Methodology What if the epigenetics help to capture the special relationship between nutrition, stress and The study by itself is a review study.It is epigenetic landscape, human mood and important to emphasize that paper based on biological destiny? And Philosophy helps to theoretical simulation. An interdisciplinary notice the interdisciplinary connections between approach is used as the lead. The scientific work the Humanities and natural Sciences and to bring relies on data of genetics, epigenetics, the study of a human being to a new level of philosophy of language, linguistics, philosophy understanding? and philosophy of religion. The paper presents a comparisonand analysis of scientific data of the Can we continue to ignore the interdisciplinary Humanities and natural Sciences about a human connections between the Spirit Sciences and the being. nature Sciences, or would it be productive to assume that they influence each other and have Discussion mutual feedback, and thus at least help man preserve his humanity before he becomes Just like any other text, human as a text has its completely disillusioned with his nature and own structure. rushes into a Posthuman future without man? Our world is rapidly changing, technogenic and According to the Linguistic encyclopedic biogenic technologies of human immortality are dictionary, text is a semantically coherent developing, attempts to blur the boundaries of sequence of signs, the key features of which are sexual identification are observed. But man as a coherence and completeness. Proper text philosophical phenomenon is still a mystery. structure shall meet the criteria of textuality, i.e. Who are we: an open self-developing system or cohesion, coherence, acceptability, a dying rudimentary element in a new, digital communicability (Yartsevo, 1990). reality? Can we say that we know what a person is in his current bio-psycho-socio-cultural According to I. Galperin, text is a product of incarnation? Can dialog, synergistic way of speech represented in a written form, thinking of modern philosophy to remind a characterized by completeness, wholeness and person about his awesome nature? coherence, and consisting of specific text units (supra-phrasal units) joined by various types of In the context of this scientific work, the lexical, grammatical, logical and stylistic means following authors helped to find some answers: under one title (headline); it is pragmatically Matt Ridley, Wells Spencer helped in the field of focused and has definite communicative aim textuality of the genome; Peter Spork and Nessa (Galperin, 2006). Kerry - in the field of textuality of the epigenome. Encuentre este artículo en http://www.udla.edu.co/revistas/index.php/amazonia-investiga o www.amazoniainvestiga.info ISSN 2322- 6307 Vol. 9 Núm. 25 / Enero 2020 51 I. Galperin interpreted text as concentration of beginning was the “Word”, it wasn’t DNA, but something organized and harmonized and in the DNA does carry its image (Ridley, 2015). meantime as something unpredictable in part that evolves in the process of text creation. It seems to be true that in the beginning it was RNA that ruled the world (Spirin, 2003). RNA Human being as philosophical phenomenon may was this very first “Word”. RNA molecule be defined as open self-organizing system that replicates itself and catalyzes its own synthesis implies structural unity and rationality (the (Chemical encyclopedia). RNA is the live word, Apollonian element) and elements of dynamic able to absorb nutrients from the environment in chaos and spontaneity (the Dionysian element) at order to replicate itself (Ridley, 2015). the same time. In light of these considerations RNA – the first Textual nature of a human manifests itself live Word – looks like the most self-sufficient through his name as headline; human genetic, substance in the living matter, with functions epigenetic, mental and cultural functions may be similar to those of a word, a basic linguistic unit. read as specific text units (supra-phrasal units); Just like a word, during biochemical catalysis while bio-cybernetic and socio-cybernetic process RNA carries information that is relationships of human with his environment contingent on any change in its meaning. Just like might be lexical, grammatical, logical and a word through its replication and coding stylistic means